Week of Sept.30-Oct. 4

• I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weekend!
• The cross country meet is on Monday and the students are reminded to dress warmly. Good luck to everyone! The event is being held in Cabot Park and the students are going by bus.
• Gr. 4 provincial math assessment will be held on Oct. 8 and 9th.  There was an information handout that was sent home at the end of last week. If you have any questions regarding the assessments, you can contact myself or Mr. Martin at the school.
• Gr. 5's will be having a math fact quiz on Wed. Oct. 2. We will be focusing on multiplication facts up to 9x9. We are continuing to work on estimation strategies throughout this week. One in particular that I introduced was the distributive property.  For example- 63x3 is the same as 60x3 plus 3x3 therefore 180 + 9= 189.   Or 345x4 is the same as 300x4 plus 40x4 plus 5x4 therefore 1200+160+20=1380. There will be a couple evenings this week of extra practice :o)
• Students are continuing our "Recount writing" this week. I am encouraging students to add supporting details to their writing.  They want to paint a picture in my (the readers) mind. I am feeling that good copies will be due on Friday. I will go over this due date with students Monday.
• Health will be wrapping up this week with a small quiz on Thursday or Friday. I will be sending home a review sheet with all students on Tuesday.
• Hot lunch orders due on Monday.
• Our class will be able to go to the canteen each and every Tuesday. Items vary in price from 50 cents to 1.50.
• Have a wonderful week!